#FlashbackFriday: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new post series I’m calling #FlashbackFriday!  Obviously, though, #FlashbackFriday is only new to me, as thousands of people join the ranks each Friday and share something on Friday from the past.  Well, today being Friday, I’m writing about a movie we watched last night that I had never seen before…Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Of course, I’ve known a lot of the music for this movie for years.  The music was written and performed by the legendary Sherman Brothers, so any Disney fan knows the music.  However, I had never seen the movie, although I certainly knew about it.  For whatever reason I just never got around to seeing it until last night.  I’ve got to tell you, though, I absolutely loved it!  It was so incredibly cool, sappy, funny, musical, and even sad at times.  In watching it, I caught a lot of similarities between this movie and one of my all time favorites — Mary Poppins.

When we were watching Dick Van Dyke’s character, Caractacus, dancing at the carnival with the other men, Sophie remarked to me how it reminded her of the part of Mary Poppins where the chimney sweeps were dancing to Step in Time.  I also saw distinct reminders between Truly’s character and Mary Poppins, not from a standpoint of what they did, but in the role that they both played with the children.

I’m glad that I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and can check off one more non-Disney Disney movie off my list.  This one is a special movie, and if you haven’t seen it, I urge you to look it up.  In closing, I’m going to share with you one of my favorite songs from the movie — Hushabye Mountain:

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as I said, has it all, and it wraps it all up in a really creative way.  This is one movie that should be on every Disney fan’s list, if it isn’t already.

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